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Podcast: WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives
Episode: Around Town 4/1/25: Local News, Culture and Events
Description: Host/Producer: Amy Browne Maine CD1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, the top Democrats on the subcommittees that oversee funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), are sounding the alarm over what they say are the EPA’s illegal plans to dismantle the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and fire hundreds of scientists nationwide. About the host: Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s Ne...